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International | Globalization & CapitalismG8 Protest: More than 10,000 block Heiligendamm
As hundreds of G8 delegates arrived in the area today, mass blockades seriously interrupted their arrival in the fenced security zone. Thousands of activists blocked all routes leading to the G8 meeting venue. Over 10,000 people blocked the fence gates and breached the newly declared zone around the fence in which all demonstrations had been declared illegal. In the evening, police violently dispersed one of the blockades, while others were continuing, with several thousand people still on the streets. Other activists were protesting in the streets at the Laage airport. In the late evening, more than 1000 people prepare to stay overnight in three blockades. http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/181680.shtml  g81.jpg Pics from today's Block G8 mass action that left from the Reddlich campsite.
Thousands of people marched through the fields and forests before splitting into several different coloured blocks to take the main SE road to the G8 security fence. This was one of several blockades which seem to have shut down all roads to the G8. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372723.html
G8 Blockade Occupies Road - (Gate 2 Shut Down!)
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G8 Blockade Occupies Road - (Gate 2 Shut Down!)
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G8 Blockade On Main Road To Heiligendamm
 g84.jpg Thousands of people left Reddelich camp early this morning to take part in the first day of blockades against the G8 summit. The main group which consisted of well over 5000 people moved towards the fence through fields and country roads. Other smaller affinity groups also left towards the fence 'protecting' Heiligendamm. Here there are a few photos of the main blockade which managed to break well inside the designated 'no-protest' zone, and successfully occupied the main road leading to Heiligendamm from the town of Bad Doberan, and just a few hundred meters away from the fence that protects the so-called 'red zone'.
At the time of publishing this report the blockade is still on, and growing in numbers as protesters from an earlier blockade of a military airport nearby are joining in. Police are bringing in water cannons and small tanks, but the protestors are staying put and resisting the blockade, some of which planning to stay overnight. Here there are a few pics of the blockade so far .... http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372740.html
G8 Blockade On Main Road To Heiligendamm
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G8 Tuesday. MSF action Rostock harbour.
 g86.jpg Medecins Sans Frontieres provided a visual spectacle to highlight the scandal of people dying in poor countries due to the price of life saving drugs. Credit to MSF's volunteers the water was filthy not to mention freezing.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372753.html
G8 Tuesday. MSF action Rostock harbour.
 g87.jpg Medecins Sans Frontieres provided a visual spectacle to highlight the scandal of people dying in poor countries due to the price of life saving drugs. Credit to MSF's volunteers the water was filthy not to mention freezing.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372753.html
G8 Tuesday. MSF action Rostock harbour.
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People across the developing world continue to die because they do not have access to life saving tmedecines. Existing treatments are are too expensive due to patent protection and needed are not being developed, as people in developing countries do not represnt a lucrative market.. Every day, MSF doctors struggle to provide treatment to patients suffering from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness. G8 leaders have singled out innovation and Africa as two of the Priorities for the summit in Heiligendamm, and hold up intellectual property protection as the way to foster innovation. But todays system of patent protection and high drug prices as the way to finance innovation leaves the needs of millions of people across the developing world unmet. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372753.html
Blocking G8
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Blocking G8
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